I Thought You'd Never Ask Novels & Stories

She asks me. “That's what I thought.”

the Queen asked bluntly, not bothering to play any more games. Finally… I thought you would never ask!

"Oh, absolutely, I'm already taking notes on everything you say, you better watch out, Lucian, I can be very persuasive in an argument." "I don't doubt that for a moment," he replied, his tone teasing, his gaze dropping to her mouth before returning to her eyes, the sheer gravity of his look making her breath stutter. "But I think you'll find I am a very difficult man to cross-examine, I have centuries of practice keeping my thoughts to myself." "Centuries, huh?" she joked back, tilting her head to look at him as they approached the front walkway of her parents' house. "What are you, a vampire?"

a mind link from her opens up, and I hear from her voice something isn't right. "where are you?" I ask and get worried about whatever she has found

“Never thought I’d see the day.” “Have you told her?” I ask.

I asked but never got a reply. Talk about weird.

"Try not to think about me too much." An impossible request, and they both knew it.

“Do you know how difficult it was to even get that tape? I had to do things I never thought-” “What did you just say?”

Measured. But my mind would not settle. Because now, no matter how hard I tried, there was one thought I couldn’t silence. What if he’s telling the truth? And worse— What if I never asked the right questions?